On Facebook, Fahrettin Şirin shared this special card for linguists and other lovers of ambiguity:

"I love ambiguity more than most people" is of course ambiguous, since it could mean "I love ambiguity more than most people (love ambiguity)" or "I love ambiguity more than (I love) most people." And in the case of some linguists, both of those propositions may have positive truth values.

Pflaumbaum said,

But wouldn't the more than I peevers say that they're perfectly happy to say more than me when me is the object, as in the Ben loves ambiguity more than [he loves] me. They're objecting to people saying Ben loves ambiguity more than me to mean Ben loves ambiguity more than I do – i.e. in what they see as a reduced clause. They wouldn't deny that there's ambiguity, they just claim that in the case of pronouns (so to speak) there oughtn't to be ambiguity.

Jon Nissenbaum said,

Adam said,

Nadezhda said,

A great writer can create ambiguity with comparatives even without "ambiguous grammar":)
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less
than half of you half as well as you deserve."
J.R.R.Tolkien "The Fellowship of the Ring"

a George said,

Chuck said,

Of course the sentence is ambiguous in that it COULD intend to differentiate between the love of 'ambiguity' and the love of 'most people', but we know, from our common understanding of how such sentences are structured, that this type of sentence-ambiquity is hardly ever intentional. Unless this is a part of a legal document the sentence could survive its' unintentionally ambiguous structure.